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Svelto ECS 3.4 internals: How to run ECS systems on the GPU

Sebastiano Mandalà — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 19:27:17 +0000

Does your ECS framework run systems on GPU? Svelto surely does :O

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Svelto.ECS 3.4 – Svelto On DOTS ECS update

Sebastiano Mandalà — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:32:20 +0000

Introduction Svelto.ECS is a platform-agnostic C# Entity-Component-System framework. You can catch its flexibility in action through the Svelto mini-examples, with applications written for Unity, .Net, SDL and Stride Engine. When using Svelto.ECS with Unity, the user has the option to take advantage of the entire DOTS suite or specific parts,

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The new Svelto.ECS Survival Mini Example

Sebastiano Mandalà — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:24:59 +0000

Introduction My Xmas gift to the Svelto Community this year was the complete rewrite of the Survival Svelto.ECS MiniExample. This example is used as a reference by all newcomers because it’s the simplest to digest for people who are not in the ECS mentality and still think in terms of

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Svelto.ECS 3.3 and the new Filters API

Sebastiano Mandalà — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:58:19 +0000

among many other features, Svelto.ECS 3.3 introduces a new shiny and finally usable filters API. The previous one had the bad habit to get very awkward very fast with the growth of complexity. The new API learns from the previous mistakes and introduces a ton of sweet features. To recap

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Entity Component System abstraction layers and modules encapsulation

Sebastiano Mandalà — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 17:15:18 +0000

Introduction This long-due article will conclude the series on Entity Component System Code Design and will explore the idea of Inversion of Control layers applied to ECS. I design code in terms of layers for quite some time now and, in fact, I have hinted at it several times in

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Svelto MiniExample 7: Stride Engine demo

Sebastiano Mandalà — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:19:33 +0000

Let's run Svelto.ECS on Stride Engine and have some fun with it!

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OOP abstraction layer in an ECS-centric application

Sebastiano Mandalà — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:34:14 +0000

There are several reasons why programmers have a hard time wrapping their heads around ECS concepts. Having learned to code with an OOP-centric language is one of them as ECS reasonings are often at the antipodes of the OOP ones.Being Object-Oriented Programming so popular means that it is not simple

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What’s new in Svelto.ECS 3.0

Sebastiano Mandalà — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 21:49:28 +0000

Svelto.ECS 3.0 is officially out, let's find out what's new.

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Svelto ECS 3.0 Internals: profiling the Entity Collection

Sebastiano Mandalà — Sun, 17 May 2020 14:16:01 +0000

Previously, in Svelto.ECS, it was possible to query entity components directly as a managed array, which would have resulted in the fastest way to iterate over the components in c#. Since Svelto.ECS 3.0 and because now the framework supports natively native memory as well, I decided to remove this possibility

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Svelto ECS 3.0 Internals: Support Native Memory Natively

Sebastiano Mandalà — Wed, 06 May 2020 15:16:20 +0000

With the approaching third major release, Svelto.ECS internals have been overhauled to support Burst and native memory (among other features that I will discuss in different articles). The idea to support native memory in a c# framework is counter intuitive, but Burst is such an incredible piece of technology that

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